A while ago I blogged about promoting my blog with Buffer. At the time I made use of the nuget package BufferAPI but lets look at some improvements I can make. The BufferAPI package worked great from my console app, but when I tried to use it from a Controller in an MVC app I never got it to work. Lets look at the API...
Last week I talked about Power BI , what it is and some of the different services you can use with it. This week lets add some of that data to a simple web page. For this example I am going to add the google analytics data from this website to this page. First login to your Power BI https://app.powerbi.com/ Click the...
The term Business Intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information. The purpose of Business Intelligence is to support better business decision making. Essentially, Business Intelligence systems are data-driven...
Have you heard of the website https://haveibeenpwned.com ? Well you should have. Have I Been Pwned is a website created by security expert Troy Hunt that keeps track of data breaches and allows you to search and find ones that affect you. As I write this Troy Hunt has tracked 3,752,984,562 pwned accounts from 216 pwned...
I am really excited a new Star Trek Discovery trailer has just been released, if you haven’t seen it yet, watch it now. The rumour mill has been going crazy about Star Trek Discovery but now we have a trailer with actual footage to analyse. In my opinion all the concerns about changes in the production team have gone...
No blog post this week. However why not check out Troy Hunts blog article about Windows Update . I am probably fairly unique in that I like installing updates whether it be on my phone, my PC or for one of my favourite programs. One of my tasks when I used to work in a sysadmin role was ensuring all windows updates got...
High Charts is a javascript library that allows graphs and charts to easily be added to web pages. A chart like this can easily be added with a few lines of html and javascript. <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"> <script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js"> <div...
For the past few weeks my software developing has been taking a back seat as I planned and coordinated the IT requirements of an office move. The company I work for has been working out of a converted barn, but as the company has grown we have outgrown the building and for quite a while it has been a real squeeze to...
I created my GitHub account in August 2010, lets look at what I have done with it. In 2010 I started by committing the code for an old php website I had created. Then in December I committed some other php sites. Between 12 December 2010 and 29 September 2011 I must have created some automated process which is why...
I would like to automate the promotion of this blog. Currently to promote this blog on social media I use a few different services. Buffer (buffer.com ) is a service that allows you to schedule updates to the main social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+) IFTTT or If This Then That (ifttt.com ) is...